Western White Barrow Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 65363 65487
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV5193
Megalithic Portal: 28710
Alternate name: Western White Barrow
Short Name: CN:W White Bar
Butler map: 57.28
Grinsell: LYDFORD 104
DPD page: 86
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 24.0 x 1.5
Lidar: SX 65363 65487
Nearby sites: SX 65363 65487
Notes
Western Whittabarrow or Whittaburrow. "A large cairn measuring 21 by 17.5 metres wide with a maximum height of 1.7 metres. It has been badly mutilated by the construction of a two room building within it."References
These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER or PMD record above.
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.4: The South-East, (1993)
- Crossing, William, The ancient stone crosses of Dartmoor and its borderland, (1902)
- Crossing, William, Guide to Dartmoor, (2001)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)